After the mention of the Brontes in the "books you expected to dislike, but loved" thread, it struck me that both Charlotte and Emily feature protagonists whose racial background is left deliberately vague (possibly as a metaphor for inner emotional turmoil?). Heathcliff is introduced as a feral child speaking an incomprehensible language, and while he has generally been considered Roma, the description also fits an Irish emigrant child straight off a coffin ship. Similarly, Mr Rochester marries Bertha in Jamaica, with Wide Sargasso Sea depicting her as black or mixed race, locked up to hide her husband's shame. The most notable recent example would be Philip Roth's The Human Skin, even if in that instance, the question isn't left open to interpretation.
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